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“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”

These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.

But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.

That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.

If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.

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Now -> Her_Doing@sunny.garden

@zimowski
Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)

However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.

Good luck.

#java #taiga

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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.

You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?

You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?

You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?

You know what oven cleaner is made of?

You stupid or something?

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kæt

@josephholsten A cerium-based one? How exciting! Cerium is one of those slacker elements when it comes to applications and people always say "self-cleaning ovens" as if that's sufficient justification to occupy a slot in the periodic table. I've known a few folk with self-cleaning ovens and they've never been a cerium catalytic one.
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kæt

@josephholsten The periodic table is at a wonderful point at the moment when period seven is finished. So it looks lovely.

I definitely think the pope of chemistry needs to say to the elements "okay, we're done" the way kids are dispersed at the end of a party when everyone's getting tired and silly.

(A genuine island of stability would be amazing, and I'd say "game on" if anything happened to have a half-life of >1s, say).

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kæt

@josephholsten Yes, as I understand it that's right. No way yet of getting enough neutrons in there. If someone manages that, I'll definitely take a grainy photo of that element in a suit and tie and make it Periodic Table employee of the month. At the moment I just feel bad like the way your heart sometimes sinks when a band says "here's some new material" and I know I *should* be enthusiastic.
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David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.

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IBS, medical

Weird thing last night. Yesterday afternoon, I did an advocated SUP lesson and the instructor really got me working my core muscles.

Then in the evening win the way back, we stopped at Pizza Express at Cobham services on the M25. I was prepared to spend the rest of the trip back in pain, because I pretty much always get abdominal pain after eating a meal.

But it didn't hurt. I felt full, but without pain, and this is a vanishingly rare experience for me. Eating = pain. It's always been like that, and I basically expect it.

Except not last night.

Meanwhile this morning, I have massive stiffness in my abdominal muscles.

Kinds feels like too much to be mere coincidence.

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IBS, medical

@Uraael I am gluten intolerant (not coeliac), so I avoid that, but that was because of extra-intestinal stuff (if I eat gluten, I get rheumatoid arthritis. if I don't, I don't).

I have tried elimination diets. I know my worst trigger foods, but ultimately FOOD = PAIN, and there appears to be nothing I can do about it.

Exercising beforehand won't work. I'll just opt for hypoglycaemia as the path of least resistance.

SUP = Stand Up Paddleboard

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Musing on the number of men with high profile careers getting brought low by sex scandals.

I'm wondering if some of them, the ones who value their career, might consider castration? Used to be a lot more popular for high powered career gentlemen, but has fallen out of fashion of late.

Honestly, as a satisfied customer, I rate it very highly.

Just saying.

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Me, appearing to 1980s me:

So, in the future, computers will be really popular. However, you will be having to get software from the “Git Hub”, there are Nazis everywhere, and the Russians will be trying to destroy society using something called “Threads”.

Oh, but you’ll finally be able to solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute.

1980s me: Um, why do you have tits?

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As a Brit the name "GitHub" will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I'm like "GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?"

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This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.

It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse.

Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public.

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FeralRobots

ah so THAT's what it was about.
I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech.
I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.

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Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass.

Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t.

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Roy Greenhilt

So i take the friendica thing is basically acting like a forwarder - Post to it, it boosts to the followers.

Close! Is a group actually private? IE, do boosts to the followers only show up to the people it boosts to? That would be helpful.

The 'group' tag helps to note this is a forwarder, but would love more information on who it is, what it is, how it is, and how do I get on or off it?

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!Friendica Support Hi all. I created a forum user (closed signup) to try the feature out. It seems to work fine directly via Friendica, but stuff posted to it isn't federating to the couple of Mastodon accounts I used to sign up to it with. It's happy to accept posts from those accounts, and responses federate back to Mastodon, but the Mastodon accounts aren't seeing other posts sent to the forum.

Viewing the profile for the forum on mastodon.social shows no activity.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

!Friendica Support
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John Wilson

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fiche.

I was is an Expat in Setúbal in the early 80s. At the time you could only take about $100 out of the country.

I took a suitcase full of 1,000 Escudos bills to Heathrow for exchange to dollars on the trip back to America for Christmas vacation in 81.

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My fediverse server is hosted in the EU (specifically, in my Ikea TV cabinet), and learning that Facebook’s new thing is so egregiously invasive that it can’t satisfy EU privacy regulations makes me confident that preemptively blocking it was not only sensible, but almost required.

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despair, climate, nazis

The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.

I need a fucking drink.

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All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it “Syphilis” or something
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